arxivcs.CV2026-07-16
Causal-Adversarial Probing of Clinical Covariates for Prostate MRI Grading
Yipei Wang, Shiqi Huang, Wen Yan, Weixi Yi, Dean C. Barratt, Mark Emberton, et al.
Deep learning models for prostate MRI-based cancer grading may encode clinical covariates that either reflect useful disease-related signal or non-generalising shortcut information, but their role is usually assumed. We propose a causal-reasoning framework for probing covariate d…